Re: XFree86 upgrade
On Saturday 14 May 2005 17:09, gustavo halperin wrote:
>elton@pop4.nl wrote:
>>On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:10:29PM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote:
>>>There are any reason because of what the last
>>>Debian-package-XFree-version is
>>>the 4.3.x and not the 4.4.x or the new one 4.5.0 ?
>>
>>Yes, the people at xfree changed the license starting with version
>> 4.4. A lot of distributions decided not to ship xfree 4.4.
>>See http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/131223.shtml?tid=104
>>for example.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Elton
>
>OK, I see, thanks.
>So what now ?, which X server will be used in the future for the
> new drivers?
>maybe the one from X.org ??
>
I think thats the general consensus, although debian is dragging their
feet quite heavily. I'm running a locally built x.org-6.8.1 here,
with no complaints. Thats not quite the latest, but my general
thoughts are not to fix something thats not broken.
>Thanks
> Gustavo
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